SOUTH AFRICA: Death of a Prisoner

Two black men were arrested on Aug. 18 at a police roadblock near
Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape district of South Africa. Under the
country's tough Terrorism Act, one of them was detained for
questioningincommunicadoin Port Elizabeth. On Sept. 5, according
to police statements, the prisoner went on a hunger strike, and six
days later he was transferred to Pretoria Central Prison. One night
last week a warder looked through a peephole in the prisoner's cell and
saw him "lying very still." A doctor was called...